Tall City Exploration LLC — sale of Permian acreage and production to American Energy – Permian Basin, LLC for $440 million

Private equity-backed buyer — purchase of Encana’s East Texas acreage and production for approximately $425 million

Three Rivers Acquisition LLC and Three Rivers Operating Company LLC — sale of all their Permian Basin oil and gas producing assets to Concho Resources for $1 billion

Manti Equity Partners, LP — $141 million joint sale of Eagle Ford acreage and production to a subsidiary of the Chinese company, MeiDu Holding Co., Ltd.

Apache Corporation — $3.75 billion divestiture of its Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf business, including an innovative collateral arrangement to secure the performance by the buyer of $2 billion of abandonment exposure

Private equity fund — $150 million capitalization of a portfolio company engaged in exploration and production activities in Texas and Louisiana

Fortune 500 company — multiple acquisitions and divestitures in the Permian Basin, Bakken, MidCon and Niobrara

Fortune 150 oilfield services company — several alternative investment transactions involving the exchange of services for Net Profits Interests in associated oil and gas properties, which, in each case, included an area of mutual interest, right of first refusal to provide services, as well as structuring of a cash waterfall within a special purpose vehicle to address applicable tax consequences

Kinder Morgan, Inc. — approximately $280 million purchase of CO2 and helium producing properties in the Permian Basin

SWEPI LP (a unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc) — $1.9 billion acquisition from Chesapeake Energy Corporation of approximately 618,000 net acres of oil and gas properties in the Southern Delaware region of the Permian Basin

Private equity-backed buyer — $190 million acquisition of approximately 15,000 acres in the Permian Basin

Kinder Morgan, Inc. — purchase of CO2 and Helium producing properties in New Mexico and Arizona for approximately $30 million

Kinder Morgan, Inc. — $7.15 billion sale of El Paso’s exploration and production business unit which includes assets in the Eagle Ford Shale, Permian Basin, Haynesville Shale, Black Warrior Basin, Uintah Basin, Raton Basin, Powder River Basin and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in Egypt and Brazil

Venoco, Inc. — divestiture of a pipeline system in California

Publications and Speeches

“Areas of Mutual Interest Agreements – Certain Legal Issues to Consider in Texas,” Section Report of the Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, Volume 41, Number 3/ Spring 2017.